Duke legend Grant Hill wears a lot of hats: he’s part owner of the Atlanta Hawks, he broadcast in the Final Four - shoot, they ran his hotel ad and then cut right back to him - and he's heading up USA Basketball.
And that’s very different now than it was under Jerry Colangelo.
For one, the pandemic disrupted the overall program. For another, he recognizes that getting players to make a multi-year commitment is not easy these days. Things have just changed, he said, and he is changing the approach to reflect that.
The problem is now back to what it always was, pre-Colangelo and Coach K: how do you get a bunch of individualistic NBA players to work as a team with minimal time together?